What’s happening this fall at School One?

Creative Writing Classes for Adults

School One teams up with Goat Hill, GrubStreet, Frequency Writers and more to offer dozens of writing classes in all genres.

School One: Adult Creative Writing Classes

Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop

Expect the likes of alien encounters, invisible cities, dystopian regimes, and girls raised by wolves. Expect the strange in forms dramatic and subtle. This class is both for people who live for this sort of stuff and for people who have never written these kinds of stories before (but want to try).

GrubStreet Providence

Boston based creative writing center GrubStreet to host a serious of creative writing courses for adults in the evenings. Classes on Monday and Thursday evenings, 6-9pm, beginning September 17th and continuing through December.

Creative Writing Workshops and Residencies For Young Writers

Write Rhode Island: Ghost Stories

Ghouls, goblins, and giggles, oh my! With guidance from Maryann Ullman, students will create spooky, gothic themed settings and characters and learn how to incorporate suspense, ghosts, and all things scary into a short story.

NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month for Young Writers

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. The challenge: draft a novel during the month of November. Our version of NaNoWriMo serves students in grades 7-12. Writers meet weekly with School One faculty and creative writing instructor Maryann Ullman.

Write Rhode Island: Short Fiction Competition for Rhode Island Students

Write Rhode Island, co-created in partnership by School One and Goat Hill, is a short fiction competition for RI students in grades 7-12. Each fall, Write Rhode Island hosts a series of fiction workshops across the state. These workshops take place in schools, libraries, art institutions and festivals from September 20 – December 1st. Winners receive prizes, awards and publication in a high-quality print anthology.

The 2019 Write Rhode Island deadline is midnight on Sunday, December 29th, 2018. Winners are announced February 2019.